Originally posted by: theredbaron

One need only read a comic book to know that the modern myth lives on.

Very good point.

BTW Ric, I have been to Nottingham and Sherwood Forest and all the museums and exhibitions and stuff, and Robin Hood did exist, but not in the way he is popularly portrayed. What I mean is there was a guy (probably not even called Robin) who the legend is very, very loosely based on, just like there was a King Arthur, but he didn't neccesarily kick it with a wizard called Merlin, and he probably didn't become King by pulling a sword from a Stone (but the Magna Carta, for example, is real. It's a really old document that sets out some laws (kinda like England's version of the constitution, but only dealing with certain issues rather than the entire law of the land - I've seen it).